Contact Billing, they can re-associate your zone name with your passport.
Technically, when you re-create it, it is considered a new passport, could
be made by anyone, so your zone name is not automatically re-connected to
it, for your protection.

"Joey C." <zalothsa@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My hotmail email expired from lack of use, I have an asheron's call
account
> linked with it, so I reactivated the email, and now I am not able to get
my
> zone nickname associated with the email address. I would really like My AC
> account back.. any suggestions?
>
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